Claude Desktop
How vibe coders and indie builders use Claude Desktop: 15 projects shared since May 2026 were built with it, and 42 were built for it.
How these numbers are counted and compared: the method.
Summary
15 projects shared since May 2026 were built with Claude Desktop, 8 of them in the last 12 weeks. Another 42 projects were built for it. In the last 4 weeks it appeared in 0.1% of the projects that said what they were built with. It is too small for the last 12 weeks to show a reliable trend. The tools most often named alongside it are Claude Code, Cursor and Codex. Over the last 4 weeks, Week 9 of making my fishing… drew the most discussion (75 comments). It simulates a fishing game with harbour scenes, fish collection, and moral dilemma mechanics across starting zones.
Projects built with it
15
Share of stated stacks, last 4 weeks
0.1%
Adjusted trend, last 4 weeks vs previous 8 weeks
too few to tell
Add-ons built for it
42
Share of stated stacks, each week
Share rather than counts, so changes in how many posts a subreddit lets through don't show up as trends.
Often used with
What's built with it
Latest projects built with Claude Desktop
- Week 9 of making my fishing… — Simulates a fishing game with harbour scenes, fish collection, and moral dilemma mechanics across starting zones.“Week 9 of making my fishing game with the help of AI”
- Stenograf — Records and transcribes meetings locally on a Mac and answers questions about saved meetings with a local AI model, linking to the transcript passages used.“I built a local meeting app that shows the transcript behind its answers”
- Lumae — Records the screen and provides a timeline editor for trimming, zooming, captioning, voiceover, blurring, and screenshot annotation.“I built a free native macOS screen recorder for demos. I'd love some feedback.”
- tidal-mcp — Connects a TIDAL music account to AI assistants so they can recommend songs, find duplicates and prepare playlists.“I built a free tool to help TIDAL users discover music and organize playlists through AI”
- Comet AI — Runs an AI browser that performs low-risk actions automatically, asks before sensitive ones, and blocks dangerous ones.“I never asked the one question that mattered. So I built a browser that asks before it acts.”
- HANA Chan — Runs a virtual pet on the desktop that evolves from an egg based on how the user raises it.“My golden retriever has kidney disease. The version on my screen is still a puppy.”
- Narada — Records Mac meetings from system audio and microphone without a bot, transcribes them on-device, and generates briefs, summaries and follow-ups.“Narada - a free Mac app to record meetings without a bot and transcribe them on-device”
- Tidewright — Simulates sandcastle building on the beach with selectable textures and visual effects.“I created Sandcastle simulator with Opus 5.”
- Minowa Home Edition — Stores personal medication, supplement, symptom notes, and wearable health data in a self-hosted Postgres database and exposes it through a web API and MCP server for AI assistants.“Open sourced my healthcare project”
- gflow-cli — Generates animated AI character videos from a face photo using Google Veo 3 and Imagen 3 via a command-line tool.“I built gflow-cli: open-source CLI to create AI characters with Google Veo 3 + Imagen 3 from a face photo”
- calchive — Provides a free collection of 36 online calculators covering finance, cooking conversions, measurement, time, math, health, and DIY.“Tried to build a calculator site a year ago. Got stuck. Shipped 36 of them this afternoon.”
- Slashy — Provides an email inbox with built-in AI features and integrations with other apps.“Rate The Launch Video”
- Prism Coder — Fine-tunes local language models to decide whether to call an MCP tool or answer directly.“I fine-tuned Qwen3.5-14B for local MCP tool-calling — 100% on routing benchmark vs Claude Opus 98.3%”
- Roku Dev Studio — Provides a desktop app for developing and debugging sideloaded Roku channels, with remote control, device stats, logs, sideloading, scripted automation, and AI agent control.“Open sourcing Roku Dev Studio”
- tp-mcp — Exposes a TrainingPeaks account to MCP-aware AI assistants and sends a daily Telegram training brief with a rule-based verdict and actions.“I built a TrainingPeaks MCP server with a daily training brief in Telegram. Curious how the idea lands.”
Latest add-ons built for Claude Desktop
- Is an MCP server becoming table… — Provides a sales workspace with lead prospecting, deep research and CRM, exposed to AI agents through an MCP server.“Is an MCP server becoming table stakes for new B2B SaaS?”
- InkVault — Archives AI coding session history and browser history locally and makes it searchable for retrieval by AI tools.“Inkvault - Preserve Your AI Conversations - Looking for Early Testers”
- VibeSEO — Audits how AI assistants recommend brands for buyer queries and generates machine-readable articles to publish to a CMS.“We got tired of agencies charging 5k/mo for generic SEO, so we built an AI agent to audit and run it inside Claude/ChatGPT”
- ThreadFox — Produces a Reddit launch plan, quoted community posting rules and three tailored post drafts for a finished product, plus reusable tools that let an AI agent research, draft, publish with approval and log Reddit posts.“I made a Reddit launch kit that starts with a plan and three drafts for your product”
- Vex (Vex's Skillgit) — Ingests code repositories into versioned, AST-chunked context that AI agents query in real time over MCP.“I built a background skill manager that treats agent memory like Git (AST-aware, MCP-ready, potato-PC friendly).”
- ClaudeSync — Moves Claude Desktop Code conversations between two Windows computers so they appear in the other machine's sidebar and can be continued there.“I built a free tool to continue Claude Desktop Code conversations on another computer”
- PostMCP — Converts OpenAPI or Swagger specs into MCP servers with compressed schemas and a web studio for testing tool calls.“Built a tool to turn any OpenAPI spec into a token-optimized MCP server (with live studio and 1-click export for coding agents)”
- Student here — Transcribes lectures live on a Mac with on-device speech recognition and lets an AI assistant answer questions from the transcript via MCP.“Student here: my Mac transcribes the lecture in real time and Claude answers "what did he just say?" mid-class. Worth turning into a real app?”
- Virtual computer for AI agents — Runs a Docker-based virtual Linux computer that AI agents control through MCP tools for terminal, files, and optional desktop interaction.“A virtual computer for AI Agents (docker mcp)”
- PrivacyPage — Generates privacy policies, terms of service, EULAs, cookie policies and disclaimers for a one-time fee instead of a subscription.“I launched a one-time-payment alternative to subscription legal doc generators, then found out my paywall had been silently broken for 6 months”
- T3rnel Browser — Provides a browser extension with developer testing and debugging tools, plus an MCP server that lets AI clients control the user's signed-in browser.“T3rnel Browser 1.1.0 is out now!”
- LookaCrawler — Crawls web pages locally and converts them to token-efficient Markdown for LLM use, exposed through an MCP server.“LookaCrawler: Fast token-efficient local alternative to Firecrawl + native MCP Server”
- Web Draw — Exposes the visible controls of the current browser tab to an AI assistant as structured text and lets the assistant click and type on them.“Web Draw: an extension that exposes the current tab to an AI assistant as structured text”
- Pickle Browser — Runs a visible local browser that AI agents control, letting users watch and take over while the agent searches, reads pages, and reports sources.“I built a free agent browser that does work in your browser for you, would appreciate honest feedback”
- ai-ssh-tools — Gives AI assistants and terminal users safe SSH access to remote servers with truncated outputs, structured metrics, and Git snapshots for rollback.“I built an SSH MCP server & CLI in Go so AI can manage servers safely (with Git rollback & token protection)”
Pitched as alternatives to Claude Desktop
- Nib — Provides a Windows desktop AI chat companion that routes requests through the user's own OpenRouter API key.“I got tired of paying monthly for AI wrappers, so I built a BYOK desktop companion.”
- VerbaGPT — Lets users query SQL, Azure, Postgres and Snowflake databases in natural language using a multi-model LLM harness.“I built VerbaGPT - an intuitive way to interrogate SQL, Azure, Postgres, Snowflake etc. using natural language”
- Wisp — Runs a hotkey-triggered overlay that sends selected text, screenshots, or voice to an AI model and shows the answer in a small bubble.“I built Wisp because I kept alt-tabbing between my editor/browser/docs and chat apps, copying context over, waiting for an answer, then copying the result back.”
- Claudy — Wraps Claude Code in a macOS app with a sidebar layout and automatically switches between multiple accounts when usage runs out.“I built a macOS app that wraps Claude Code — multi-account auto-swap + sidebar layout for multitasking”
- Lamprey — Provides a desktop coding IDE that runs coding agents on DeepSeek, Gemma, Qwen, and OpenRouter models, with a planner-coder-reviewer agent pipeline, git diff review, and a terminal.“"Claudex" Harness for DeepSeek, Gemma, and Qwen Models”
- Claudagotchi — Provides a desktop Claude Code client with a code editor, file explorer, git diff gutter, and a persistent virtual pet panel that grows and plays games while the agent works.“A Tamagotchi can't code and Claude can't Tamagotchi. Or can they? I wanted to find out.”